It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.